• Smart Media Journal
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.52-59
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• 2020

This second survey, which collected 2392 disclosing grades data for 2012~ 2017, nearly twice the first survey, was conducted to supplement the result of the first survey on the reuse of 4-digit passcodes(PCs) data. In addition of second survey, we found that the more number of used PCs, the higher reuse rate, up to 4 numbers of PCs were used for reusing and there may be personal differences even on the single site. The results of this paper that were not available in the first survey were close to the those of foreign research on the reuse of passwords using a mixture of numbers, letters and special characters. This second survey provided an inference that an opportunity to indirectly approach the domestic situation of re-using password, where data collection is impossible and that domestic regulation such as periodic change of password may increase the re-using password.